The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21
MISCELLANEOUS

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fee of the OWI at Troy, N. Y, the other
morning. The foreman, Carlos B. Conant,
was beat over the head with clubs until he
was unconscious. They pied the type,
dumped the cases and racks, the composing
stones were broken and general chaos Gre
ated. Recently the OWL was noted for its
attacks on the Knights of Labor.
The business failures during the seven
days ended April IA numbered for the United
States, 146; for Canada, 80; total, Us,
against 223 the previous week. Business
casualties were on the decline in every sec
ton of the country.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clared a second dividend of forty per cer+,
to the creditors of the City National Bank
of Williamsport, Pa This makes in all
ninety per cent. paid to the creditors on
claims proved. amounting to S130,341
A PARTY of Mormon elders has been ex-
PEELED by the people of the western part of
North Carolina
The boycotted st. Louis stove patterns
were not given out in Louisville, XIV, and
the expected strike did not take place.
A TORNADO ravaged ST. ClairsvilIe, O., on
the 18th, extending nearly to Wheeling, W.
Va. At St Clairsville the damage was put
at S2OO.OOO
Two hundred furnacemen in the Union
Steel Company's works, Chicago, have
struck against the Poles employed as labor
ors.
A TERRIBLE thunder and hail storm passed
over Niles, o., on the 18th. Mrs. Michael
Maloney, aged forty, was struck dead by
lightning, while standing at an upstairs
window
The French Government has ordered an
inquiry into the management of Cape ALLY
light house, with a view of ascertaining
if it is true, as alleged, that the fog horn
was only sounded after the packet steamer
Victoria had struck the rocks.
A LARGE fire was In progress at Kenne-
bunkport, Me-, early on the morning of the
10th. Half of the business section of the
town was consumed
ABOUT twenty-five creditors o, Clapp &
Davis, wholesale jewellers, who failed for
S25O,0OO, held an Indignation meeting at
Chicago on the 18th at which there were
many angry Intlmations that the firms al
legged collapse was barefaced swindle.
GEORGE GARDNER, of Acton. Mas, has
failed with $60,0 O0 liabilities AID unknown
assets.
A. j. CHAPMAN, a wealthy farmer OF
Holmes County, o., was burned to death
the other day while burning brush.
FRENCH deputies representing the fish,
ing interests of that nation have entered
protest against the Newfoundland Fisheries
bill
A LARGE dynamite bomb, with burning
fuse attached, was found the other nigh;
near the Minister of Public Works private
office, in Madrid. A plucky employee grasped
the fuse and quenched it in time to prevent
an explosion.
THE Tdge6Ldtt of Vienna says that Tichin-
of, the man who fired at the Gar recently
at tho Gatschina Palace, was hanged the
same day on which the crime was commit
ted.
THE jury in the case Of John Arensdorf,
charged with the murder of Rev. George
G. Haddock at Sioux City, Iowa, disagreed
and were finally discharged on the 18th
The jury stood eleven for acquittal and ore
for conviction. Dennis O'Connell. who
stood for conviction, alleged that the Arens-
dorf party had attempted bribery.
THREE miners were imprisoned in the
upper pit of David's coke works at Con-
nellsville, Pa, by fire recently and were
thought to be suffocated.
WHILE viewing the wreck Of a freight
train on the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
road, near Palatine, ILL.,, on the 18th, five
persons were killed by the bursting Of a
large water tank.
TIE dressed beef enterprise Of the Mar
Quis de Mores proved failure and the
money has been returned to the subscrib-
ers- He attempted to form the National
Meat Consumers Company, Of New York
IT was reported in London on the 18th
that al English steamer had foundered of
BoRifacia. Corsica, and 15Q lives were lost
THE Candahar troops, sent to suppress
the Ghilzai rising, have found the rebels so
numerous that they have been compelled
to entrench.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
April 16 showed an average increase Of "a 8
compared with the corresponding week of
last year. In New York the increase was
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